For those who can’t escape the war on their private plot or in the vegetable garden, sometimes the basement becomes the last refuge—especially if your home was partially destroyed, and you yourself are a burned-out refugee and no longer young. Children, ignoring you completely, went abroad, leaving the helpless old man right in the jaws of the great war—and all that remains is to survive. But survival can be different. After all, you’re not the only one living in the basement…